Monday, 17 March 2008
The Atrium Quartet are Russia's most successful string quartet out side of their home land, them being the very first group from Russia to win two of the most prestigious competitions for quartets in the world. At the Wigmore Hall in 2003 Atrium burst on to the scene when they won the first prize at the London International String Quartet Competition and they also picked up the Audience Prize for the same performance of the fifth string quartet of Shostakovich. This was their debut on Radio 3 in the UK and in the same year following the success they went on to record their debut single on EMI Classics. Quite a start for a new quartet but it doesn't stop there with recent success at the 5th International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux in 2007 all of the jury awarded them the Premier Grand Prix and the Prix MMSG.The musicians making up Atrium are Anna Gorelova (cello), Dmitry Pitulko (viola), Anton Ilyunin (violin) and Alexey Naumenko(Violin). Alexey was the original founder of the quartet in 2000 along with Anton, Dmitry joined in 2004.
If you are interested in future dates when the Atrium Quartet will be performing why not get in touch or you can visit their website for more news and information by clicking here ATRIUM QUARTET .